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Old January 19, 2011, 09:08 PM
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En el artículo enmendado del DRAE nos dan:
entrar, o pasar, alguien por el ~. 1. locs. verbs. coloqs. Hacer, vencido por fuerza o maña de otro, lo que no quería.

Oxford dice:
pasar or entrar por el aro (en el circo) to jump through
the hoop; (someterse) to toe the line

Por cierto, cuando JC cruzó el Rubicón dijo aquello de "Alea jacta est"... "la suerte está echada"

(Ahí es donde Astérix te echa una mano...)
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Por cierto, cuando JC cruzó el Rubicón dijo aquello de "Alea jacta est"... "la suerte está echada"
Actually, it is not at all certain. According to Plutarch what he said was ανερρίφθω κύβος, let the die be cast. For some mysterious reason, everybody assumes that JC always spoke Latin.
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Actually, it is not at all certain. According to Plutarch what he said was ανερρίφθω κύβος, let the die be cast. For some mysterious reason, everybody assumes that JC always spoke Latin.
Are you casting corpses...? I always thought they were dices
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Are you casting corpses...? I always thought they were dices
Oh dear, Oh dear. die Noun. A small cube (κύβος), having its faces marked with spots, numbering from one to six, used in games of chance by being thrown. plural dice: a game played with these.
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Oh dear, Oh dear. die Noun. A small cube polyhedron (κύβος), having its faces marked with spots, numbering from one to six, used in games of chance by being thrown. plural dice: a game played with these.
My D20 isn't a cube, and has its faces marked with digits reading 1 to 20.
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My D20 isn't a cube, and has its faces marked with digits reading 1 to 20.
So it is just a D20 then, which according to the OED is not a die, even if you do throw it.
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ops, i thought dice was singular and plural dices
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Ohhh, those D20 dice of Dungeons and dragons......
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Ohhh, those D20 dice of Dungeons and dragons......
Los romanos ya tenían dados tipo D20, por lo menos en el siglo II d.C.
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Si, pero yo no soy tan viejo....
quizás Perikles se acuerde ...
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Los romanos ya tenían dados tipo D20, por lo menos en el siglo II d.C.
Ah well, the OED was clearly written before that.

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quizás Perikles se acuerde ...
Oi!! If I were that old, I wouldn't be able to remember anything anyway.

Si estuviera fuera tan viejo, no podría acordarme de nada.

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